{"id":142,"date":"2005-12-12T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=142"},"modified":"2005-12-12T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T17:57:58","slug":"coping_with_lon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/12\/coping_with_lon\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping with loneliness&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, she claims to have added a mustache, only&#8230;.<br \/>\nI wonder how many seconds will it take for somebody to start selling those on eBay, catering to lonely wives of soldiers&#8230;<br \/>\nOnly in America&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"NBCSandiego.com - News - Mannequin Replaces Husband Serving Overseas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/5516943\/detail.html\">NBCSandiego.com &#8211; News &#8211; Mannequin Replaces Husband Serving Overseas<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nKINGSLAND, Ga. &#8212; A Georgia woman has found an unusual way to cope with missing her military husband &#8212; a mannequin that looks just like him.<br \/>\nSuzy Walker purchased a sailor mannequin on eBay, which she says looks eerily like her husband. He is currently serving aboard the USS West Virginia.<br \/>\nShe takes him out to dinner, to the movies and even to buy lottery tickets.<br \/>\nWalker says the mannequin helps her get through the newlyweds&#8217; first separation.<br \/>\nThe mannequin weighs about 40 pounds.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm, she claims to have added a mustache, only&#8230;. I wonder how many seconds will it take for somebody to start selling those on eBay, catering to lonely wives of soldiers&#8230; Only in America&#8230; NBCSandiego.com &#8211; News &#8211; Mannequin Replaces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/12\/coping_with_lon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}